Sunday, February 24, 2013

Ho hum, it seems I am always apologizing for being behind in my posts, as I am now. Here we are, at our place in Yuma and it is in late February and this poor old blog is stuck
somewhere in October at the pumpkin patch. Sooo, I will attempt to get
us up to date! The reason I am doing this now is because we are going to have another adventure this summer when we go to work at West Yellowstone KOA in mid May, so I need to get this updated, so I can share with you our adventures on our way up to the park, when we leave here April 1.

When I left you last, I wanted to include a few more pics of our

The rabbits, not babies anymore

animals, so here is the rest of the story.....Hazel was added to our
group of goats because she was

Hazel, Iris and Levi

older and liked to be petted in the hopes
that the younger ones

Ron scratching the pig's belly

would get the idea that petting is nice! It did work after awhile, in fact, Levi learned to like it a lot, even little Iris finally came to understand

The chicks getting their feathers

that being petted wasn't bad at all.

We are
finally done with our pumpkin patch and very happy

Ron riding his horsey

to be wandering once again. I do
miss the sweet little goats, as well as the pigs
and their funny antics, BUT, I don't miss

Everybody trying to pile in!!!

cleaning
up after them!!! I have a few parting shots of the
last days we were there. One of the days, I went
into
the animal pen with the wagon so I could spread

The pigs are almost as big as the wagon, now!

some clean hay for them. As soon as I emptied the wagon,
all of the goats tried to jump in the wagon and
one of the pigs almost made it, too. They
were so silly! Hazel,

This head is ready to be replaced

the oldest one was
trying to chew the side of
the wagon, because it was plastic and
I gave a ride to Levi, until I got to
the gate and then made him get out.

Standing out from where the bus is parked and the patch is waaaay down there....

A few days before we closed for

Looking back at the bus

the season, we had a customer who
works at a small swine

Getting closer...

sanctuary,
although, they do have the full sized
ones, too. She told us a pig will do
anything for raisins and if we throw a
towel or some article of clothing into
the enclosure, they will play tug of
war, all day long. Well, we did find
something to throw in there, but, it
was too small for them to play tug of
war, although they would grab hold of
it and shake it around, just like a dog
would do, it was so funny!

So, the big animals made us
laugh and helped
pass the long days when hardly
any customers came in. The last day was
pretty
cloudy and few customers
really came in to buy
that many pumpkins. Our
boss kept popping in
from time to time to
gather bales
of straw, corn stalks,
pumpkins
and the animals
when they had
room. He
was decorating
his yard for
his Halloween
party that he
throws
every
year for his
neighbors and
friends. Of
course, we
were invited
too,
if we wished
to come.

Picking
up the goats
was no big
deal and
picking up the
first pig wasn't
too
bad...until it
came to
getting the
last pig.
Finally, Ron
went in there
with the cage
they came in
and tried to
coax it
with some pig
food. He got
her close
enough to the
cage for
the other two
guys
to surround
her and put
her in the
cage. Our boss
said it was
the quietest
and easiest
transfer
of pig to
trailer he's
seen.
Unfortunately,
during
all the
grabbing of
animals, we didn't
have our
camera handy
for pictures.

We
left the lot
for the last
time on
Thursday, the
1st
of November and
pointed the
bus toward Sacramento.
Now, we are
parked at
fellow
Boomers, Ron
& Carol
Leonard's
house to visit

A small hawk looking inside

for a few
days. They
also have a
casita down in
Yuma, not very
far from where
we live and it's
nice to see their
house up here,
too.

Today,
we drove to
old town

Old train station

Sacramento
to visit an
old building
the train
depot is going
to fix up with
shops and such.
They also have
just

finished
building new
ramps to the
different
tracks going
to various cities in
California,

Inside the top floor

which is all
underground
from the main
train
station. Looks

Ron, Carol, Ron & me

pretty nice.

After
looking at
that, we

Old Town Sacramento

walked over to
the "Old Town"
and walked
around looking
at

Inside Fat City

the shops
and had lunch
at Fat City.
The lunch was
delicious and
since I wasn't
able to have a
drink on my
birthday, I
had something
called a
Godiva

YUMMY

Chocolate
Martini, made
with Godiva
chocolate liqueur,
dark creme
de cacao,
vanilla vodka
and a splash
of creme.
As a bonus,
they had Godiva
chocolate sauce drizzled in
swirls on
the inside of
the glass,
yum,
yum!!! I
think it was
the most
expensive
drink I've
ever ordered,
but, boy, was
it good!

After
lunch, we wandered
into a salt
water taffy
store and
bought some
different
flavors, then,
went into a
chocolate
factory where
Ron
bought some
dark chocolate
almond bark
and then, we
all had some
ice cream!
Talk about a sugar
rush!!!

Tomorrow,
our friends
will take us
on a tour
about their
town as well
as doing some
other stuff,
so I will wait
to post about
that.

About Me

We have been full timing in an RV since May of 1993, and are still loving every minute of it. There is just so much to see in this great country of ours. We now live in our '59 Flxible VL-100 bus conversion and although it isn't totally done, we can still travel around in relative comfort.